The Sensemakers Club is a community-powered education space where curious people come to grow without performing or pretending to have it all figured out.
Are you a sensemaker?
A sensemaker is someone who helps people understand complex, messy, or ambiguous situations and turn that understanding into better decisions and action.
It’s not a job title.
It’s a role someone plays when clarity is needed. Some people make sense for a season, and some of us are professionals and hobbyists.
You might be a sensemaker if you...
- Translate between teams
- Fix structural issues no one else sees
- Clock patterns others don’t
- Care deeply about clarity and inclusion
- Question what’s next
- Maintain systems that prevent chaos
- Document what others skip
This week at the club
We are on our end of season break this week! No sessions are scheduled. Season 2 starts next week!
Browse our discussion groups or check out our full calendar.
2 PM ET Making Sense of Content + Design
Hosted by Gladys Diandoki & Janine Griffin
This intersectional group explores the intricate relationship between content and design, emphasizing their essential collaboration in creating effective outputs.
2 PM ET Mindfulness & Modeling
Hosted by Joe Elmendorf
This thoughtful group explores the parallels between mindfulness and modeling, emphasizing the integration of mind and body, the significance of presence over outcomes, and the patterns that help us remember what matters.
1 PM ET PUBLIC Ask Me Anything (Derek Wood)
A free, public Ask Me Anything session with Derek Wood — bring your questions about sensemaking and the Sensemakers Club.
2 PM ET Knowledge Management & Governance
Hosted by Dina Bennett & Jane Leuchter
This lively group focuses on collaborative efforts in knowledge management and governance, bringing together individuals tackling complex documentation and change proposals.
3 PM ET Social Media Party
Hosted by Abby Covert
A hands-on workshop where members gather to create, swap, and celebrate social media content together in good company.
2 PM ET Career Transitions
Hosted by Kate Murphy & Alison Gretz
This supportive group focuses on navigating the challenges and opportunities of career transitions, whether you're changing roles, industries, or re-entering the workforce.
2 PM ET IA Office Hours
Hosted by Abby Covert
A steady group focused on a monthly theme in information architecture.
3 PM ET IAC Film Interviews (Special Session)
Hosted by David Farkas & Cass Fellerman
A special session capturing member interviews for the IAC film project — come share your story on camera.
What’s going on?
Week of July 6, 2026
Abby Covert
Chief Sensemaker
We just wrapped up Season 1 where we hosted over 150 sessions. We covered a lot of ground between January and June of 2026. It felt like the meta focus was on the nature of sensemaking itself and underneath all of it, a few threads kept pulling through.
Themes from last season:
- Invisible work has a body count.
- The systems aren't broken. They're working exactly as designed.
- Knowing something and doing something about it are not the same thing.
- The performance is costing us more than we've admitted.
We didn't solve any of it. But we weren't trying to. What we were doing (and what I think we'll keep doing) is building a shared vocabulary for the parts of work that don't have one yet. We are finding each other across job titles and industries and career stages and saying: yes, I see that too. I can’t wait to see what we uncover and label in Season 2.
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